From: Tristan Wibberley <bloater@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:44:12 +0000

Re: XFree86 4.0 and GGI

I'm only pointing out the reasons publicly given. Didn't mean to offend ;)


On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:56:35PM +0100, becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:
> 
> > The only thing stopping XFree developers working with GGI ones is the
> > video drivers in the kernel. 
> 
> That is nonsense. SUIDKGI is there, and they can just use the KGI driver that
> way. No problem at all.


Is it working now? Cool!, I'm gonna start using the virge driver for stuff!


> The drivers can't use IRQ and stuff, then, but that's life in usermode.

> > Because KGI is there to make graphics on the
> > console work well, the console must be able to use it - and on Linux at
> > least the console is in the kernel. If there is any way to make a small KGI
> > server that uses IPC and which the console can be forced to use, there is
> > nothing stopping XFree working with us (other than pride).
> 
> EvStack did that. Noone listened.


A lot of people thought EvStack was a parody on the GGI project members
perceived arrogance. Quite ironic really. :)
 
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Tristan Wibberley